In the latest surveillance state data breach from China, a database listing the 'breed ready' status of 1.8 million women has been found and exposed by Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers.
shortage of brides in China is causing major social shifts', which claims that China is missing some 60 million women as a result of the country's one-child policy, which was introduced in 1979 and has consequently bent"society out of shape" given the preference for male children who were considered better able to support their parents in old age.
There followed a social media debate as to whether this breach came from a dating site or something more onerous and governmental. There was also a suggestion that 'BreedReady' might be a clumsy age classification or even a mistranslation relating to whether a woman already had children.
Intrusive and insensitive would seem fairly apt descriptions of the fields in this insecure database.This is the latest example of dystopian data breaches from China. Gevers' research hit the headlines last month when he exposed the SenseNets data breach with more than 2.5 million records relating to the near real-time movement of Xinjiang Muslims.
contains over 2.565.724 records of people with personal information like ID card number scoring and zero-tolerance policing.According to Gevers, China is second only to the U.S. in the number of open databases of this kind that can be found by trawling online. And, judging by what we have seen so far this year, the data being harvested confirms the dystopian fears about the state's thirst for data- and surveillance-driven population control.
How this impacts on the broader debate raging between the U.S. and Beijing about China's technology sector and any prohibitions on export sales, remains to be seen. There is clearly a cultural and political divide that has now been exposed as something of a Pandora's Box. One might think that if you were going to track your population through facial recognition and capture information such as breeding age then you might focus on the security of such information. But apparently not.
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